“Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People” tells mind-bending stories of what might have been…
Isaac Bashevis Singer meets Zane Grey in Max Sparber’s unforgettable tale of the Yiddish Wild West, “Yossel the Gunslinger.”
A rabbi oversees the creation of golems mined from an asteroid in Jack Nicholls’s short story “If the Righteous Wished, They Could Create a World.”
Jane Yolen’s poem “Psalm for the First Day of Space Travel” provides a Jewish prayer for embarking on interplanetary adventures.
These are just three of the works by thirty authors that appear in the brand-new speculative fiction anthology “Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People,” edited by Andrea D. Lobel and Mark Shainblum and published by Ben Yehuda Press just in time for Chanukah.
In “Other Covenants,” you’ll meet Israeli astronauts trying to save a doomed space shuttle, a shtetl plagued by its own undead, a Jewish science fiction writer in a world of Zeppelins and magic, an adult Anne Frank, an entire genre of Jewish martial arts movies, and a Nazi dystopia where Judaism refuses to die – among other stories that could have been.
Contributors include Robert Silverberg, Jack Dann, Lavie Tidhar, Gillian Polack, and Harry Turtledove, among many others. The anthology is co-edited by two Canadians: Jewish Renewal rabbi and Carleton University lecturer Andrea D. Lobel and Aurora Award–winning science fiction and comics writer Mark Shainblum. Canadian contributors include Allan Weiss, Milton Verskin, Seymour Mayne, D.K. Latta, Eric Choi, and Claude Lalumière. Contributors from Oceania include Gillian Polack, Jack Dann, Jack Nicholls, and Rivqa Rafael.
Released on December 14, “Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People” is available in paperback online through all booksellers and direct from the publisher. Learn more at https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/other-covenants/.
[Photo: Rabbi Andrea D. Lobel and Mark Shainblum, co-editors of the brand-new speculative fiction anthology “Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People.” Photo courtesy of the editors]
